It is hard to guess what a Goliath shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Goliath shrew (Crocidura goliath) on average weights 87 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Goliath shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.7 cm (0′ 6″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The goliath shrew (Crocidura goliath) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Goliath shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Savanna swamp shrew with a weight of 19 grams
- Savanna dwarf shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Montane white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Arizona shrew with a weight of 2 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Goliath shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura goliath:
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Blind mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Bunny rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Long-haired rousette bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Oecomys speciosus bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Goliath shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Goliath shrew:
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Robust yellow bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)